Posted: February 13th, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Google, SEO, Search engines, Web | Tags: canonical, canonical tag, Google, href, Search engines, SEO, seomoz, url, yahoo | No Comments »
I just read on SEOmoz that a new rel tag was announced to be supported by Search engines: "canonical".
From what I understand you will be able to tag different pages with the <link rel="canonical" href="original page url" /> tag.
This means that you’ll be able to cover a whole bunch of potential duplicate content within your site. A quick application for this would be the merging of pages that are typed case insensitive, for example:
could all be marked as canonical to "/page".
For more information please read the canonical tag article on SEOmoz.
Posted: December 2nd, 2008 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: General, Google, Tools, Web | Tags: e-commerce, Google, google optimizer, google website optimizer, magento, osc, search engine watch | No Comments »
I just read about this on Search Engine Watch.
It seems that as of December 1st, Magento has integrated their product with the Google Optimizer.
If you think testing is not so important… think again ! These days everybody who’s anybody seems to invest time and money into usability testing and Google’s solution is a free and easy one to use.
Due to my job I’ve had contact with a number of e-commerce platforms like: OScommerce, zen cart, magento and others probably not worth mentioning. From all the solutions I used and customized, I like Magento best as it really shows they put time into creating a solid solution.
What’s your take on this ?
Posted: November 30th, 2008 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Google, SEO, Search engines | Tags: domain, Google, PageRank, PR, redirection, SEO, TBPR | No Comments »
Some time ago I was telling you about my full site redirect experiment.
In the meantime a Google Toolbar PR update took place and the new fresh domain got a PageRank of 4.
It seems that if you decide to move one domain to another, the new one will receive almost all of the old one’s authority.
This is good to know and could succesfully be used in some of the following cases:
- You have a site idea and you get a domain for it; sometime in the future you see that it’s not the best "choice of words"; no problem, you get a new domain name and move the website to it, redirecting 1:1; In this case you keep almost all of the old domain’s authority
- You get hold of a related (or unrelated) older domain; instead of moving your working website, you redirect all traffic from the related domain to your website; this will raise your website’s authority; if you can get hold of some good quality/good PR domains with traffic which you don’t have anything to do with, I suggest you use them to boost a domain of you choosing’s traffic and authority up
I’m sure you could find other uses for full domain 301 redirection and I’d appreciate if you could post any ideas you could share in the comments!
